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"It's settled, then I'll give you your first real lesson to-morrow, and send to New York at once for music. You'll have to do lots of scales and finger-exercises, I warn you! Now come into my parlor there's something else I wanted to talk to you about."
There are some other tones to which I fear we are prone not to listen. I mean the tones which the piano makes when we play finger-exercises. We think perhaps of the finger motion, which is not all; or we think of nothing, which is very bad; or our thoughts begin to picture other things even while we play, which is the worst of all, and bit by bit we actually forget what we are doing.
A most agreeable teacher too, who did not trouble her pupil with finger-exercises and scales, but gave her tunes at once without more ado; and first of course the favorite, "Live thy life merrily." Dora learned the air very quickly with the right hand, and Lili did not require her to learn the left hand yet; declaring that it was quite too difficult to play both together.
“Miss Lingard,” he said haughtily, “is a young woman for whom I have the utmost, the utmost respect.” “So have I,” I said coldly. He paid no heed to my remark, but began to do rapid finger-exercises on his shirt-sleeves, as he stood with tightly folded arms. “Kindness of heart,” he went on, staring at the ceiling, “sentiment, are not understood in a place like this.
This was a "Manchester man" and former pupil of Halle's, and it would certainly not be long before he set the place in a stir. Dove had just come from his lodgings, where he had been permitted to sit and hear him practise finger-exercises. "A touch like velvet," declared Dove. "And a stretch! I have never seen anything like it. He spans a tenth, nay, an eleventh, more easily than we do an octave."
In the music-room of the white house the young lady of the family had opened the piano and was practising finger-exercises. The scales and arpeggios following one another without interruption, came to his ears in a pleasant monotone. A Chinese "boy" in a stiff blouse of white linen, made a great splashing as he washed down the front steps with a bucket of water and the garden hose.
"Here, ladies and gentlemen, is one of those rare persons who have a jot of talent in them, and off she goes I don't mean at this moment, but tomorrow, the day after, every day to waste it in teaching children finger-exercises. If you ask her why she does it, she will tell you it is necessary to live. Necessary to live! who has ever proved that it is?"
'Miss Lingard, he said haughtily, 'is a young woman for whom I have the utmost, the utmost respect. 'So have I, I said coldly. He paid no heed to my remark, but began to do rapid finger-exercises on his shirt-sleeves, as he stood with tightly folded arms. 'Kindness of heart, he went on, staring at the ceiling, 'sentiment, are not understood in a place like this.
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